{"id":6188,"date":"2014-01-06T10:47:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T10:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/?p=6188"},"modified":"2014-01-09T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T08:37:15","slug":"nano-spike-coated-surfaces-spear-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/nano-spike-coated-surfaces-spear-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nano-spike coated surfaces spear bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full article can be read\u00a0on \"Zeit Online\" (in German, link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/wissen\/2013-11\/schwarzes-silizium-keime-nano\" target=\"_blank\">Schwarzes Silizium vernichtet Krankheitserreger<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The following publication is cited in the article: Ivanova, Elena P., et al. \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2013\/131126\/ncomms3838\/full\/ncomms3838.html#affil-auth\">Bactericidal activity of black silicon<\/a>.\" <i>Nature communications<\/i> 4 (2013).<\/p>\n<p>For further information, please contact: info@innovationsgesellschaft.ch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by intriguing structures found on dragonfly wings, a team of Australian and Spanish researchers has developed a method to form surfaces with bactericidal nanoprotrusions. In their experiments they applied a special etching treatment to black silicon, but since the bactericidal effect is mechanical, the method is independent of the chemical composition. The method \u201crepresents an excellent prospect for the development of a new generation of mechano-responsive, antibacterial nanomaterials\u201d, the researchers state in their paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}